Lal Pir

Lal Pir or Lalpir (also Laal Pir) is a village near Mehmood Kot, Muzaffargarh District, Punjab, Pakistan. It was destroyed in floods in August 2010 and rebuilt by the efforts of the Midland International Aid Trust, a charity based in Walsall in the Midlands of England. For this reason the tented village erected as emergency accommodation pending the full rebuild was known as "Midland" or "Midlands Village", a name also transferred to the village itself.^[1][2]

Nearby, also in Mehmood Kot, is the site of the Lalpir Power Plant complex.^[3]Lal Pir has a railway station on the Sher Shah–Kot Addu Branch Line.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. News.bbc.co.uk: BBC Local - Birmingham: Walsall charity helps to rebuild Pakistan after flood damage. Louise Brierley, 3 February 2011
2. BBC.co.uk: Pakistan village renamed Midlands after charity helps. 3 February 2011
3. GlobalEnergyObservatory.org - AES Lalpir Power Project Oil Plant